Employers Share Moments They Had To Fire A Person On The First Day
Finding a job is never easy, and finding a person perfect for the job is also never easy. However, there are moments in employers’ lives when they think they finally found the right person for the job. But then realized they were so wrong.
These employers from the Reddit Community shared their craziest employees that they had to fire immediately. Check them out!
1. Worst First Day
I worked at a large housing and counseling center for delinquent teenage boys.
Usually, about half of each new group of people hired didn’t last more than a couple of weeks (they hired in ‘waves’ and give them two weeks of training before they have them do much on-the-job work).
However, the employee who topped them all was arrested during his first day of training. He was a vet with good references, seemed level-headed, etc.
Great hire!
Except….during a training lecture, a bunch of ATF guys showed up and arrested him for selling lots of restricted illegal stuff without a license or documentation.
2. Weird One
I worked at an upscale cocktail lounge as a bartender. One day, my boss hired this new guy to work behind the bar with us. It was rush, and the bar was packed, and we were all running around.
Then this new guy comes up to the sink behind the bar, kneels down, puts his hair under the running faucet, and then flings his head back, leaving a splatter on the wall behind him.
He then proceeds to smooth his hair down… at rush… in front of customers…
He didn’t stay long.
3. Helping Himself
My old manager (matron at a psychiatric secure hospital) told me of a guy who was employed as a healthcare assistant, working with people with a learning disability.
Part of his role involved escorting patients into the community to help them with shopping.
He took his first charge to a shopping center and proceeded to spend £250 on their debit card buying electronic goods for himself...which he then brought back to the hospital and asked for them to be stored in the staff room until the end of his shift.
He left with the police.
4. Easy Job, Easy Mind
Hired a girl to fire watch, which is where you literally sit still and make sure nothing sets fire while someone welds. Easiest job in the world. How do you mess it up?
This girl gets five minutes into her first job, lays down on the ground, and goes to sleep.
Not like she dozed off. She rolled up her jacket as a pillow and everything. On the ground. In the dirt. In the middle of our mill.